‘org-element-at-point’ cannot be used in non-Org buffer

[tkossak]

Description

When I press SPC j i (command spacemacs/helm-jump-in-buffer) I get multiple errors:
⛔ Warning (org-element): ‘org-element-at-point’ cannot be used in non-Org buffer #<buffer *helm org inbuffer*> (helm-major-mode)

Reproduction guide 🪲

• create file test.org with content:

* heading1
blabla

• you need to also have (setq helm-org-format-outline-path nil) in your dotspacemacs/user-config in .spacemacs file
• Start Emacs and open test.org file
• press SPC j i

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔

• the error appears in separate buffer

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄

• there should be no error

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 29.4
• Spacemacs: 0.999.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 2cb3531)
• Graphic display: t
• Running in daemon: nil
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(emacs-lisp helm org treemacs)

• System configuration features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB

[tkossak]

I found out that the problem is caused by (setq helm-org-format-outline-path nil) in my user-config.

[tkossak]

@smile13241324 what do you mean "not planned" - the bug won't be fixed?

[fnussbaum]

I cannot reproduce this. For me your reproduction steps succeed without errors or warnings for both values of helm-org-format-outline-path. Are your packages up to date?

[smile13241324]

Sorry @tkossak I have understood your last comment that this was a user config error. If not I will reopen this issue

[tkossak]

I just tried to reproduce it with new spacemacs installation:

mv ~/.emacs.d ~/.emacs.d.old
mv ~/.spacemacs ~/.spacemacs.old

git clone --recursive https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d

Now copy my sample dotfile to ~/.spacemacs. Only few lines changed from default dotfile - I added org layer, removed multi cursor layer and added these 2 lines:

  (setq helm-org-format-outline-path nil)
  (setq org-startup-indented 't)

Create sample org file (eg like in first post), start Spacemacs and open the file. Press SPC j i, result:

When I comment out the line (setq helm-org-format-outline-path nil) then it works without any errors. But it also works when I comment out only the second line (setq org-startup-indented 't), so not sure what is the culprit here.

[fnussbaum]

This seems to be a problem upstream in https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-org, and should be reported there.
As a workaround it should be relatively safe to ignore this warning with something like:

  (add-to-list 'warning-suppress-types 'org-element-parser)

(These warnings will still get logged to the buffer, but they will not pop up anymore.)

[tkossak]

Thank you. I posted it in helm-org github.
The silence trick doesn't work properly for me. I added it to my spacemacs/user-config function, and now when I press SPC j i I don't get dialog (to jump to specific heading) at all. Instead I get error in status bar:
Error running timer ‘org-indent-initialize-agent’: (wrong-type-argument listp org-element-parser)

For now I got rid of the option (setq org-startup-indented 't) from my dotfile.

[fnussbaum]

This should work:

(add-to-list 'warning-suppress-types '(org-element org-element-parser))

[tkossak]

This should work:

(add-to-list 'warning-suppress-types '(org-element org-element-parser))

Thank you very much, this works :)